Yellow Comet
Blazing Star
Mentzelia affinis
Jones' Blazing Star
Mentzelia jonesii
Pale yellow flowers about size of American dime with many stamens. Leaves dark green and with rounded lobes. Low growing spring annual on lower desert habitats absent in dry years. Detailed Description
Bright yellow flowers about 25 mm in diameter. Seed pods club-shaped and often curved or 'S'-shaped. Upper elevations of the Sonoran Desert. Detailed Description
Adonia Blazing Star
Mentzelia multiflora
White-bract Blazing Star
Mentzelia involucrata
Elongate, wavy toothed leaves are stiff and act like Velcro® - they will adhere to clothing or fur. Plants also called "Stickleaf". Bright yellow flowers with many petals. Found along sandy washes in the Sonoran Desert. Detailed Description
Pale yellow to cream-colored flowers with usually 5 petals and a series of up to five bracts with white centers and green margins directly below flower. Rocky slopes in spring. Detailed Description
White-stem Blazing Star
Mentzelia albicaulis
Sandpaper Plant
Petalonyx thurberi
Bright yellow flowers supported on whitish stems. Spring annual. Petals mostly less than 8 mm. Detailed Description
Short, deltoid shaped leaves are very rough and feel like sandpaper! Whitish flowers with complex morphology in a spike at ends of twigs. Below flowers on the spikes there may be few to many dead and bleached pale leaves or leaf-like bracts attached. Found in deep sand along washes or near river flood plains in the Sonoran Desert. Detailed Description